VLKSM: decoding, view of history and essence

What is VLKSM? The interpretation of the concept will be very familiar to our compatriots of the middle and older generation. But many youth representatives will probably have difficulty explaining what it is. Let us recall this relic of a bygone state.

VLKSM: decoding and essence

In the Soviet Union, abbreviations and compound words were very popular. These are the GULAG, VCHK, DOSAAF, SMERSH, OBKHS, TRP, General Secretary, Obkom, NII and many others in this innumerable series of terms unfamiliar to people from without, but easily recognizable to tens of millions of inhabitants of the Union republics. In this row was the abbreviation of the Komsomol. Decoding of the concept was as follows: All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union. Shortly, it could also be called simply the Communist Youth Council.

Central Committee of the Komsomol: transcript

This organization, although formally considered a product of youth initiative, of course, was actually organized according to the will of the country's top leadership. In the likeness of the party system of the Komsomol had its own Central Committee,
That is, the central committee that served as the supreme body of the youth wing and directed all the work of the Komsomol cells and organs. The committee was subordinated to each district committee of the Komsomol in every corner of each republic.

History of the Komsomol

By its nature, the Komsomol was a mass social and political organization for all Soviet youth. The Youth League received young men and women on reaching the age of 14 (that is, the body was the next step for yesterday's pioneers). The Komsomol was created as the youth wing of the Communist Party on the eve of the October Revolution in 1917. Of course, the organization did not immediately take its final form. In the first half of 1917, its Petrograd prototype was called the "Socialist Union of Working Youth". The inspiration for its creation was Vladimir Lenin. A year later the organization grew into an all-Russian one, and later spread its activities to other Soviet republics, surviving until the death of the state itself, whose brainchild She was.

The role of the Komsomol in the life of the Soviet Union

The union was a totalitarian state. This word today is often used as a reproach to the heritage of our people. However, together with the negative trends inherent in such systems, they often have positive aspects. An important fundamental characteristic of any totalitarian regime is the universal control over the life of society in all its spheres: social, economic, political, spiritual. The state not only ensures its own stability, but also manages the process of educating its citizens: control over the content of literature and cinematography, propaganda of humanistic ideas. At the first stage of its existence, the Komsomol was an important tool in promoting education among the peasantry, eradicating illiteracy, and so on. Later, the Komsomol was in the forefront of Soviet youth, demonstrating examples of the highest achievements in sport, science and other possible realizations.